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March 2006, Vol 96, No. 3 | American Journal of Public Health 399-400
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.079871

LETTER

PRENTICE ET AL. RESPOND

Julia C. Prentice, PhD, Anne R. Pebley, PhD and Narayan Sastry, PhD

Julia C. Prentice is with the Center for Health Quality Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford, Mass. Anne R. Pebley is with the School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles. Narayan Sastry is with the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Julia C. Prentice, PhD, Center for Health Quality Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford VA Medical Center, 200 Springs Rd (152), Bedford, MA 01730 (e-mail: jprentic@bu.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

We thank Carter-Pokras and Zambrana for their comments and the opportunity to further discuss how the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (LAFANS) protects sensitive information such as respondents’ legal status. Researchers who collect sensitive information have an obligation to protect respondents’ confidentiality, privacy, and safety. Yet there is another significant obligation—to science, the public interest, and the respondents themselves—to have the data used as broadly as possible for research and policymaking. Balancing these 2 obligations is a challenge.

To protect respondents, we obtained a confidentiality certificate, which, in principle, protects LAFANS against being forced to divulge data in response . . . [Full Text]






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